The Vienna Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof) is the largest in the Austrian capital and is located in the southern part of the city, in the Simmering neighborhood, on Simmeringer Hauptstraße.
Summary
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- 1 History
- 2 Curiosity
- 3 Estructura
- 4 Fuente
History
Opened in 1874 , the cemetery covers an area of about 2.5 km² and is one of the largest in Europe. In this cemetery there are about 330,000 graves and about 3.3 million people have been buried in it. The cemetery is divided into several parts according to religions. It is advisable, if you visit it, to try to walk through the different areas, such as the Old Jewish Cemetery (which occupies a separate area), the Islamic, Orthodox burial areas or the so-called “Park of Stillness”, in honor of the Buddhists. .
Curiosity
As a curiosity, during World War II, a time when food was not abundant in the city, the Central Cemetery was used as a field for growing vegetables.
Structure
The plan of the cemetery is divided into numbered groups and 32A, which is on the main avenue near the Karl Lueger Church , is where most of the composers who rest in this place are buried (and the most prominent, such as Beethoven , Schubert and Brahms). We can see a general plan of the enclosure and a detailed plan of group 32A: In this group 32A we find, in addition to the aforementioned tombs of Ludwig van Beethoven , Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert , musicians such as Hugo Wolf , the Strauss Family, Christoph Willibald Gluck..In front of the tombs of Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms we find a monument to Mozart. Although Mozart was buried in a common grave or community grave in the San Marx cemetery in Vienna, a tribute to the composer could not be missing in a place like this. tomb 21A we find the resting place of the composer Arnold Schonberg who died on July 13, 1951. But the aforementioned area of the cemetery, around group 32A, is not the only one in which there are musicians. Entering through the main door and on the left side, next to the wall, is Group 0. In it, we find composers such as Carl Czerny , Antonio Salieri orTheodore Leschetizky
